“When asked whether he views the need for an anti-discrimination law solely through an economic lens, the governor boasted that since he took office in 2013 more than 110,000 new jobs have been created, and Hoosier businesses this year already have promised to invest $3 billion in the state.”

I guess that answers the question, and that answer is yes.

“I really do believe that we found a way through that difficult period last spring to calm the waters, and the facts speak for themselves: Indiana’s economy is strong and growing stronger.”

“…We’re going to move forward on the policies that are making that a reality, and we’ll leave debates about the future for the future.”

Because we love a good correction

Anyway, West believes that a walmart clerk didn’t sell booze because West thinks the clerk, just like The Kenyan Usurper is a musloom:

“There was a young man doing the checkout and another Walmart employee came over and put up a sign, “No alcohol products in this lane.” So being the inquisitive fella I am, I used my additional set of eyes — glasses — to see the young checkout man’s name. Let me just say it was NOT “Steve.”

My guess is that West sprang for those X-Ray glasses in the back of comic books, too. Word to West: I’ve met some Jews named Christian. Notice how West was not buying booze himself (a-hem) in his story of daring-do infiltrating the calphate of Texasstan’s Walmart…

“I pointed the sign out to Aubrey and her response was a simple question, how is it that this Muslim employee could refuse service to customers based on his religious beliefs, but Christians are being forced to participate in specific events contrary to their religious beliefs?”

And then there’s the inevitable correction to ruin his good time being a martyr:

“EDITOR’S UPDATE: We spoke to the Walmart store, and apparently employees under 21 years old are prohibited from selling cigarettes and alcohol.”

Our favorite documentarian fabulist, convicted felon, fired Y’all Qaeda business school dean, and would-be bigamist D’VORCE D’SPOUSA appealed to Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman to have a summer vacation from his time in the slammer:

“With respect to [his parole officer’s ] request that Mr. D’Souza’s community service hours be ‘waived’ from June 1, 2015 until July 13, 2015, the request is respectfully denied,” Berman wrote.

“The short explanation is, as all criminal defendants are aware, that we don’t provide ‘summer breaks’ in these circumstances.”

Oh, man! D’Vorce D’Spousa even included a recent Vanity Fair article to help sway the judge to let him have time off:

“With respect to the Vanity Fair article, the court has no immediate reaction other than the article suggests several fertile areas of discussion during Mr. D’Souza’s required therapeutic counseling,” wrote Berman.”

So the long and the short of it is that D’Vorce D’Spousa is now a political prisoner (thanks Obama!) and the judge thinks he needs to seek out help. The End.

“She can’t even be honest about the fans on her social media sites. A study was done of her Facebook page. Again, we had to go across the ocean. We had to go to I think it was The Guardian in England to get anybody in the media to do a job. They found something odd about her followers. Seven percent of her followers were from Baghdad. That’s not really comforting or real. And on Twitter, it was revealed that 15%, about 544,000 of her Twitter followers, are bogus accounts.

If her team is willing to lie about Facebook and Twitter fans and make people up just out of whole cloth, what else are they willing to lie about?

Interesting premise, but let’s do a little investigation of our own. First off all, it wasn’t the (usually excellent) Guardian, it was the (always wretched) The Daily Fail, er, Mail that worked out that HRC has some bogus followers.

Let’s dive into the Fail:

StatusPeople.com, the oldest publicly available Twitter-auditing tool, reports that 44 per cent of the former secretary of state’s followers are ‘good'; 15 per cent are ‘fake'; and 41 per cent are ‘inactive,’ meaning that they never tweet or reply to any tweets.

…Another tool, TwitterAudit.com, sampled 320,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s followers and found that 18 per cent were fake.

Chilling, no? But just for shits and giggles, let’s see what happens when we run Glenn Beck through the sameanalytic services!

Glenn Beck Faker Status April 16, 2015

Jeebus, Beck, you are slipping. That was too E-Z.

UPDATED: just checked my own scores, and I’m pleased as punch to report…

Like this:

If they had a time machine, men would be more likely than women to travel to pre-World War II Europe and kill Hitler, according to a recently published study.

…According to the study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, both men and women calculated the consequences of such a difficult decision, but women felt more conflicted about committing murder.

(Politically) Dead Man Talking

“I believe in the Golden Rule that you should ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn’t eat there anymore…As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.”

But you didn’t Mike, and no amount of bleating and mewling will change the fact that you did sign exactly such a bill. So you are either dumb as a stump, or a liar. Personally I think you are both.

And really saying you walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, so therefore you cannot be a bigot is offensive. I’m waiting for the some-of-my-best-friends moment.